Integer underflow leads to out-of-bounds access in sniffer ChaCha decrypt path. (wolfSSL wolfSSL)

CVE-2026-5778
LOW 2.1

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.22 % · percentile 13 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
wolfSSL
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

Integer underflow in wolfSSL packet sniffer <= 5.9.0 allows an attacker to cause a program crash in the AEAD decryption path by injecting a TLS record shorter than the explicit IV plus authentication tag into traffic inspected by ssl_DecodePacket. The underflow wraps a 16-bit length to a large value that is passed to AEAD decryption routines, causing a large out-of-bounds read and crash. An unauthenticated attacker can trigger this remotely via malformed TLS Application Data records.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-191 — Integer Underflow (Wrap or Wraparound)

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 4.0LOW 2.1CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NwolfSSL
CVSS 4.0LOW 2.1CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:XNVD · facts@wolfssl.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
wolfSSL · wolfSSLaffected 0 ≤ 5.9.0

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD